The playbook is intended as a tool for new and seasoned programmatic buyers alike, and provides an overview and valuable tips on mobile's most important nuances: creative, location, viewability and brand safety, device, and data activation capabilities.

In the ad tech space, “CRM” and “CRM data” are being increasingly misused in the context of targeting customer lists via addressable platforms. Here are three unexpected places where SaaS companies can mine data on customer interaction with their product

The 2016 election promises to be exciting not only in politics, but also in the world of advertising. For the first time, mobile and multidevice political advertising will play a significant part in the advertiser media mix. While significant developments have been made in deterministic and probabilistic user identification, however, the industry still needs to conquer measurement, privacy and other challenges before it can realize the full potential of cross-device for political advertising.

The anatomy of an ad call can be simple, or it can be an intricate process, a sort of dance between servers to deliver the right ad for the right price.

Let’s say that you were on the Internet one evening looking to buy a new laptop. You browsed some websites, searched for laptops and studied a few, even put one in your cart at Amazon. But you got distracted before you finished a purchase and went to sleep. The next day, you wake up to check the news and notice that there is an ad from Amazon among the headlines on the website. This ad shows you laptops and maybe even the exact same laptop you had abandoned in your cart. How did this happen? How did Amazon know you would be at this website and manage to buy an ad space there showing you the exact same laptop you had been looking at just a few hours ago? It goes a little something like this